Stand-Up Bare-Knuckle Fist-Fight About Oh, Mr Porter!!
There's a clip from <i>Oh, Mr Porter!</I> on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=M1lxDjd_fi8&page=1
I made a comment there, about as normal a comment as anyone could make:
During this film, at at 19mins 35secs, roughly, there is a good joke that youngsters might not get:
HAY:</B> You should have come sooner!
<b>FARMER MURPHY:</B> I couldn't, my wife's had quinsy....
<b>HAY:</B> Like that woman in Canada?
The joke refers to the Dionne Quins. Quinsy is a disease of the tonsils. I couldn't hear it at first.
To my amazement, this banal comment enraged one demented freak. He threw his hat onto the floor and bellowed:
That <b>isn't</B> what he said. He said twinsies, as in twins. When Will Hay is faking the fire call to get the farmer to leave he asks "How's Mrs. Murphy and the twinsies?" <b>gamewizard
But then, like one of those nutters on a bi-polar comedown, he cowered in the dark corner and muttered:
Oops, my bad, on further research it is Quinsies but it has nothing to do with tonsils. It is the birth of quintuplets that happened in Canada in 1934. Google for Dionne quintuplets. gamewizard
So to clarify the point, which I thought "gamewizard" still had not got, I posted this:
The farmer is saying that his wife has had quinsy, which wikipedia says is <i>Peritonsillar abscess, also called quinsy or abbreviated as PTA, is a recognised complication of tonsillitis.</I>
He is not saying his wife had 5 children at once.
But Will Hay thinks that that IS what he meant. That's the joke. offramp
This threw him into a carpet-biting frenzy:
You are wrong</B>. He clearly says How's the <b>QUINSIES</B>? on the telephone with Albert with an S at the end. Why would he put an S on the end of a word that is singular? <b>gamewizard
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Another thing, quinsy as you call it, was never named after anyone. If he is referring to a mere tonsil infection, why would it be even be known in England? Is a tonsil infection in Canada really newsworthy in England? The birth of the first quintuplets to survive would have been tremendous news back then and the Dionne quintuplets were the first and it would have been known of world wide. Quinsy was known of long before the 1930s so the remark about the woman from Canada makes even less sense. gamewizard
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I just watched the scene for the third time today and the farmer himself even says QUINSIES with an S. Why would the farmer leave his pigs for over a month at the station if his wife merely had an abcess? Caring for a wife and 5 babies might justify leaving the pigs that long but a dental abcess would not. You are seeing a joke in that scene that does not exist. gamewizard
So I am meeting gamewizardfor a <b>BANFF</B> (a Bare-Knuckle Fist-Fight) at 5am on Monday, 1st June 2012 in the ASDA car park.
I expect to leave him suffering a rather severe <i>quinsy </I>of his own LOL. share